The Cyberwar Against Marketing Hype

When discussing CEP and EP, someone recently blogged:
“There is even one person who declared a full fledged cyber war on anybody who uses the term “complex event processing” not in what he believes to be the original intent of past DARPA project in the area of security and military operational applications.”
Actually, I think that blogger [...]

Proposed EPTS Steering Committee Reorganization

Following up to my earlier posts on Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) related topics, I am proposing a draft reorganization of the EPTS Steering Committee. The current EPTS Steering Committee was structured as follows:

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Industry
Primary EPTS-Related Technology
Comments

1
Software Company
Event Stream Processing / Continuous Query
Vendor

2
Software Company
Event Stream Processing / Continuous Query
Vendor

3
Software Company
Event Stream Processing / Continuous Query
Vendor

4
Software Company
Event [...]

The Genesis of CEP Confusion

Opher Etzion responds to the onging confusion with On basic classification of terms.  First of all, there has been confusion in the CEP/EP community since the term “CEP” was coined, so the confusion is nothing new.  Second, one of the main sources of confusion is the Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS), chaired by Opher.   The [...]

Twenty Four CEP Public Presentations on SlideShare

For archiving purposes, I have uploaded 24 public CEP presentations that I presented over an 18 month period at various conferences from March 14, 2006 to September 21, 2007.  These presentations can be viewed here.  For example, my first public CEP presentation:
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: event processing)
So far, I have placed [...]

Gartner Event Processing Summit (and EPTS Meeting), Sept 2008

Many folks have been sending me email, inquiring if I will be attending the Gartner Event Processing Summit, September 15-16 or the 4th Event Processing Symposium, September 17-19, 2008 (the EPTS meeting).    I regret not attending either event this year and will miss getting together with everyone.  In addition, I would like to thank Opher and the EPTS team for [...]

CEP is Not BPM, BAM, BRE, BRMS or SOA

A post in  Technology content of current CEP products? reminds me of why I rarely, if ever, agree with anything that comes out of Aleri’s marketing team.   To fair to Jeff, it is not only Aleri but others, who continually misdefine business process management (BPM) as CEP.
Jeff uses the example, “Smart Order Routing” as an example of [...]

EPTS: Proposed Event Processing Definitions, September 20, 2006

For interested readers, here are the event processing definitions we provided to the (future) EPTS working group on September 20, 2006, coordinated (edited) by David Luckham and Roy Schulte;
adaptive process management (n.) an element of resource and business process management, adaptive search and event processing. Sometimes referred to as “Level 4” event processing or process refinement.
application [...]

EPTS: An Event Processing Marketing Society (EPMS)

A number of months ago we posted Some Comments on the EPTS Member Agreement where we concluded, in summary:
“I have quite a few other concerns the with EPTS Member Agreement.   Basically, the agreement needs to be written with an eye toward a more flexible, open and inclusive process that puts the future of the EPTS square into [...]

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